Coupon-slip.



W. S. PINLEY.

COUPON SLIP.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 3, 1912.

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WILLIAM S. FINLEY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COUPON-SLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25,1913.

Application filed May 3, 1912. Serial No. 694,977.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. FINLEY, citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Coupon-Slips, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to coupon slips, bei g an article particularlyadapted for use in connection with trading stamp systems, so called, inwhich one or more stamps are given by a tradesman when purchases aremade, the object of the invention being to provide an improved device bymeans of which said stamps may be collected and preserved in convenientmanner, by the buyer, until the stamps are redeemed.

Instead of providing stamps which are gummed on the back, and adapted tobe stuck in a book or the like as customary, I provide a card havingthereon strips of gum spaced apart proper distances to accommodatedifferent rows of stamps, and the stamps are without mucilage and may bereadily attached to the card by wetting the stamp and sticking the sameon the gummed part or strip.

The card may form the leaf of a book if desired. Inasmuch as the couponsare not gummed they are much more easily handled than if they were andthe narrow strips of gum avoid, to a large extent, sticking together ofthe leaves or cards. The distance from one strip of gum to the next isarranged to be the same as the length of the coupon, thereby occupyingthe minimum of space necessary to expose to view the entire face of thecoupon attached thereto, and the number of coupons on the leaf or cardindicated at once, each card or leaf being made to hold a given numberof coupons.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is aplan View of a card or leaf constructed according to the invention.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates the card or leaf, towhich is applied parallel strips of gum 7, to which the coupons 8 may beattached in the manner above indicated. The upper edges of the variousstrips of gum are spaced apart a distance equal to the length of thecoupons, so that each coupon may be attached at one end, by wetting thesame, to a strip, and when a suflicient number areattached the wholeface of the card or leaf will be covered with the coupons.

As stated, the narrow strips of gum reduce the liability of the leavesor cards sticle ing together and the absence of gum on the couponsenables them to be stacked and handled without the trouble andinconvenience incident to stickingtogether, such as commonly occurs withpackages of gunnned stamps.

I claim:

A card or leaf having a surface area adapted to be covered by a givennumber of coupons, and provided with narrow parallel strips of gumacross said surface to which the coupons may be attached in rows, thestrips of gum being spaced apart a distance substantially equal to oneof the dimensions of the coupons, and the length of the strips beingsubstantially equal to a given multiple of another dimension of thecoupons, whereby the number of coupons is indicated by the surface orrows covered.

In testimony whereof, I do affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM S. FINLEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, E. A. WISUREE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

